Josh Townsend

Josh Townsend is a Sr. Technical Marketing Architect in VMware’s Hyperconverged Infrastructure Business Unit, where he focuses on VMware Cloud Foundation and other Software Defined Data Center technologies. Josh is a technology leader with 20 years of hands-on experience in VMware virtualization, storage design, Microsoft technologies and network infrastructure as a customer, consultant and VMware partner. He holds several technical certifications, including VCP, VCAP5-DCD & VCAP5-DTD. Josh is active in the Washington DC VMUG and has been recognized as a community leader through the vExpert and EMC Elect programs. In his spare time, Josh serves as a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical responder with Ashburn Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department - in the heart of the Washington DC area’s high tech corridor and data center alley. Follow Josh on Twitter @joshuatownsend